Jordan Silversmith Wins the 2020 Gival Press Novel Award

Jordan Silversmith of NYC has won the 14th Gival Press Novel Award for Redshift, Blueshift. Judge Seth Brady Tucker read the entries anonymously. Jordan Silversmith will receive a cash prize of $3K & his book will be published in the fall of 2021. Finalists Minato Sketches by Sharon White of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concord by Don Zancanella of Boise, Idaho. Socorro by Sara Alemán of Yonkers, New York. The Museum of An Extinct Race by Jonathan Rosen of Burlington, Vermont.

ArLiJo Issue No 140

Featuring fiction & poetry by

• Robert Cataldo

• Mary Warren Foulk

• Moskoula Harisiadis

• KateLynn Hibbard

• Janet Joyner

• Briana Peterkin

• Jendi Reiter

• Deon Robinson

• Richard Schulein

• Nicolas Teixeira

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Winner of the Oscar Wilde Poetry Award

Congratulations to George Klawitter of Notre Dame, Indiana who has won the 19th Annual Oscar Wilde Award-2020 for his poem titled Twenty. Michael Rodman last year’s winner served as the judge, who read the entrees anonymously. George Klawitter received a cash prize of $500.00 and his poem is published at Gival Press websites.

Finalists:

Marsha P. Johnson Is Arrested for the One-Hundred-and-First, and Last, Time

by Arnaldo Batista of Dania, Florida.

When I Realized I Was a Green Tree Frog in Another Life

by Grant Chemidlin of Los Angeles, California.

Acetate Love

by Natasha Dennerstain of Oakland, California.

Love Potion #9 (Revisited)

by Octavio Gonzalez of Wellesley, Massachusetts.